Posted on 08/21/2008 4:46:37 PM PDT by csvset
A New York man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison after a jury convicted him of stealing submarine parts from the Navy and selling them for scrap.
Frank E. Spaulding, 37, also known as Khalif Immanuel Bey, confessed to stealing submarine acoustic domes in December 2006 after the parts had been removed from the Hampton, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Spaulding sold the parts, worth $21,000, to a local scrap yard for about $2,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Man convicted for stealing parts from submarine at Naval Station Norfolk
05:51 PM EDT on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
NORFOLK -- A U.S. District Judge sentenced a 37-year-old New York man on one count of theft of public property and one count of false statements. According to testimony and evidence from the trail, in December of 2006, Frank E Spaulding, also known as Khalif Immanuel Bey, stole a pair of submarine acoustic device countermeasure domes from Naval Station Norfolk. The domes had been removed from the submarine, USS Hampton, which was home-ported in Norfolk at the time. Spaulding allegedly loaded the domes into his pickup truck, and the next day contacted several local scrap dealers in an effort to sell the domes. Spaulding reportedly sold the domes to a Virginia Beach scrap dealer for around $2,000. One week later, a Navy sailor who worked on the submarine domes spotted them at the scrap yard, leading to an NCIS investigation. Spaulding initially denied stealing the domes, saying he found them behind the dumpster of a Chinese restaurant in Hampton. NCIS agents spoke to the manager of the restaurant and surrounding merchants who all said they never saw anything near the dumpsters resembling the stolen domes. In February of 2008, Spaulding was arrested on the charges and confessed to stealing the domes and lying to NCIS agents. The Navy was able to recover the domes, and say it would have cost around $21,000 to replace them had they not. Spaulding is scheduled for sentencing on August 21st.
OK - now what is the REAL story. Damn lazy reporters...
See if he’s building his own sub..?
Whoa, didn't see that coming!
There is a Johnny Cash song about an autoworker who built a Cadillac “one piece at a time” by smuggling parts out in his lunch box. Maybe something similar is going on here.
Its a ‘01, ‘02, ‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07,’08 submarine...
Didn’t Johnny Cash have a song about some guy working at a car factory stealing parts to build a 1952,53,54,55,56,57 Caddy???
There has been so much theft of copper pipe from homes under construction that a proposal has been floated to require scrap yards to get positive ID on sellers of scrap.
But how do you smuggle something that big out?
Whoa, didn't see that coming!
A lot of times when someone has adopted the name "Bey" they are some sort of "black Muslim" type. There was a group called the Moorish Science Temple of America that started this stuff almost a hundered years ago.
Yep the crackheads, meth freaks and general lowlifes have been stealing copper from the AC units at schools closed for the summer and churches. Also, catalytic converters are big items. They’re targeting SUVs and pickups with bolt on converters .
LOL That song was the first thing I thought of.
There was a story a few days ago about a bank selling a house in Detroit for $1. As soon as they forclosed the locals began stripping it. They boarded up the house and the boards got stolen. It’s an empty shell now (no doors, no sinks, no anything). It cost the bank $10,000 to sell it with back taxes, unpaid utility bills and closing costs. That’s not to mention the original $65,000 the house sold for two years ago.
This would be the smaller covers that go over the listening devices along the hull. They are about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall (roughly). When a boat I was on years ago was lowered into the drydock at Newport News they miscalculated and drove one of these sonorpods into a block that the boat rested on. Oops.
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